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Directions: In the appropriate conference on our class Web Board,
discuss one or all of the following.
- We know very little about the narrator of "Tell Tale
Heart" - who he is, what her connection to the old man is -
for that matter, whether the narrator is a he or she. How
did you view the narrator? What details did you as the
reader provide?
- Like "A Cask of Amontillado," "TTH" is told
from the point-of-view of an insane murderer. Consider the
similarities and differences between the two narrators and the two
stories.
- Like "Fall of the House of Usher," "TTH"
involves a character claiming to have overly acute senses. How are
Roderick Usher and the narrator of "TTH" similar and
different? How are their maladies similar and different?
- Like "A Cask of Amontillado," "TTH" involves
a murder with very little backstory. Is this a weakness of
Poe's writing, or a deliberate technique? Why might, in either
story, he have chosen to leave the details so vague?
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